Rezaul Karim Siddique

Rezaul Karim Siddique (1958-23 April 2016) was a Bangladeshi professor of English who was murdered by al-Qaeda in 2016 for allegedly being an atheist.

Biography
Rezaul Karim Siddique was born in 1958 in West Pakistan to a Sunni Muslim family of Bengalis, and he founded a music school and edited a literary magazine while serving as an English professor at a university in Rajshahi. Because he was involved in cultural activities, he was targeted by al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, which accused him of being an atheist, although his daughter claimed that he was religious. On 23 April 2016, he was killed by men wielding machetes outside of his home, as he was one of the 84 "atheists" targeted by al-Qaeda in Bangladesh.